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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

EPHRAIM SOPER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CARRIAGE-LAMP BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming` part of Letters Patent No. 242,848, dated June 14, 1881.

Application filed November 8, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EPHEAIM SoPER, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain Improvements in CarriageLamp Brackets, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention is designed to be applied to that class of carriages of which the tops are constructed to be raised or lowered when occasion requires, and its object is to enable the lamps to be attached to the front of the carriage-top in such manner that, whatever the position of the latter, the lamp will be automatically adj usted to a vertical position-that is to say, its socket will be automaticallymaintained at a horizontal position, whether the top be raised or lowered or placed in any intermediate angle. To this end the invention comprises a novel combination of parts whereby said object is effectually secured.

Figure l is a side view representing my said invention as applied in practice. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of a portion thereof, and Fig. 3 is a side view and horizontal section of the same.

A represents the forward end of the front half of a carriage-top vertically divided in the middle, and designed to fold, the front half forward and the rearmost half backward, in the manner well understood by carria ge-build ers. The lamp-supports are placed one on each side of the front A, and a description of that on one side will serve for both.

The front A of the carriage-top is hinged or pivoted at a to a fixed arm, A', attached to the box B, at the forward end of which latter is `the usual seat, C. The part A is of wood internally grooved, as shown at B in Figs. 2 and 3. Through this hollow B extends a rod, D, one end of which is pivoted to a iixed pivot, b, at the top of the iixed arm A', and the op posite end of which is pivoted at c to the free end of a crank-arm, E, which extends radially through a slot, a', in the side of the part A from a rock-shaft, f. This rock-shaftf is extended outward, as shown at g, from the outer extremity of which extension g extends forward a bracket-arm, F, at the outer end of which is the socket G for receiving the lamp.

It will be observed that the rod D is substantially longitudinal with the part A, that the shaft f and its extension g are in a direction horizontally transverse to the part A, and that the bracket-arm F extends forward in a position substantially at right angles to the said shaft f, this relation of the parts enabling them to secure the result hereinafter more fully particularized.

When the carriage-top is elevated the part A, and consequently the rod D, will be vertical, the crank-armE will bein position atan an gle of, say, forty-five degrees, as represented in dotted outline in Fig. l, and the bracket-arm F will be substantially horizontal, as also represented in Fig. 1. If, now, the part Abe thrown forward around the pivot a,the rod D will exert a drawing action upon the crank-arm E to draw the same d ownward or backward,therebyina proportionate degreeliftin g the bracket-arm F, and consequently the lamp-holder G, so that whatever the position of the partA the draft or drawing action of the rod D will always be automatically and duly proportioned to tilt upward the bracket-arm. F, and thereby retain the lamp-holder G in a horizontal position, what ever be the angle to the vertical ot' the part Aof the carriage-top. a By this means the lamp will always be retained in a substantially vertical position during any and all adjustments .of the partAA of the carriage-top, and this, too,

forth.

EPHRAIM SUPER.` Witnesses:

CHAs. H. DoxA'r, JACOB LEVY. 

